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Suleiman, the vice president that was only recently named to that spot will take over as president. this as it is getting close to 6:00 p.m. local time. you can see the tents, you can see the people there in liberty square, tahrir square, as they are just getting the news as well. we got it here about 30 minutes ago. they are also hearing the news as we were speaking with a former parliamentary member there with the demonstrators saying they could not believe it. they cannot believe that president mubarak after close to three decades, 28 years of rule, may tonight in just hours there local tim...

This movement. that has been their request. one would assume if he does in fact step down, and we are waiting for some sort of official announcement for that, it would be -- well, it probably would be enough to stop this movement or at least change it significantly. a protest movement could very, very soon become a victory cry all across cairo. >> richard, please stand by. i know you're watching the situation there. we want to go live to a member of parliament, the vice president of one of the opposition parties here. what party do you serve as vice president? >> actually we are hearing it now...

As well as of late the entire cabinet to step down, the entire leading group of that country to step down because president mubarak not being sufficient enough at this time. originally at the start of these protests that we've been watching live coming out of cairo, the request from the opposition, which has been numerous, although you have heard of the muslim brotherhood as well as god and waft, all of those comprising groups that have come together saying they do not want president mubarak to be leading the country anymore. we are continuing to watch of course the situation. we're also heari...

More breaking news this hour. we are hearing at the moment that senator jon kyl will announce his plans to retire at a press conference in arizona at 10:00 a.m. local time. that is about 12:00 p.m. local time here on the east coast. that's about an hour and 10 minutes. again, senator jon kyl, the republican from arizona, saying that he will step down as he is serving his third term in the united states. of course the battle there in the senate is for the balance of power. this as just three or four seats separate that balance at the moment. arizona republican jon kyl deciding not to seek re-el...

Then last friday at a joint press conference with the canadian prime minister, the president again leaving little doubt, although not publicly calling for mubarak to go, said that it was time for mubarak to do the patriotic thing and move his country in the right direction. and then over the course of the last several days after that, some thought that perhaps the white house was back sliding a bit, that they were buying into the argument that the more he was going to dig in and the less likely he would be to leave. secretary of state hillary clinton was at that munich security conference last...